5th Olympic games! Now with duos and a way to triple prizes!

by **Noahs Second Country** » Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:29 am

Holland DS6 wrote:
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:That card isn't very valuable. I would personally have sold it for 0.01. At most, someone who is purchasing rippled flags for this competition might buy it for 0.03-0.05.

Shhh, I am just trying to get more out of it then it's junk value. The people want rippled flags, I have one, so I try to sell to who wants it the most

The Olympics is about using bank wisely - there are plenty of JV asks on common ripple cards, I doubt you'll see anyone buying above .02 or .03.

by **Sunhizria** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:24 am

and using your main nation, to create an Improvised pull event, that only profit your olympics puppets.

This is some damn bullshit
I'm giving up ON THESES stupid games, that allow such ridiculous move.

aint even fun, there no point to play when noah blatantly cheat like that.`

I RESIGN from theses blatant games of CORRUPTION

by **Sunhizria** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:00 am

Because we know how Noah and GIo were to able to win 3 categories, Epic, Commons and rippled flag.
we refuse to recognize theses blatant games of corruption.

theses thing were not good games. they were disgusting.

some big farmers play it like a professional, then use their main to create a pull that only benefits them, how is the little guy supposed to have any chance on winning ?

so, we shall this

stupid trash games of trash, we did not had fun....

by **Noahs Second Country** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:04 am

Noahs Second Country wrote:
Holland DS6 wrote:Shhh, I am just trying to get more out of it then it's junk value. The people want rippled flags, I have one, so I try to sell to who wants it the most

The Olympics is about using bank wisely - there are plenty of JV asks on common ripple cards, I doubt you'll see anyone buying above .02 or .03.

Well this didn't exactly age well

https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/ ... tion=nsco3

I'd also appreciate if a certain someone would stop calling us cheaters on the forums, discord, and RMB, thanks. And it's especially rude to criticize the games in a nonconstructive manner considering they are all run and funded by 9003 for the community.

by **The Cosmic Mainframe** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:00 am

Pending the final results, I believe I got second in Epic and UR, and I'm glad for that.

First in the UR category was All Wild Things, so of course the little guy can win sometimes.

by **Sunhizria** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:17 am

Noahs Second Country wrote:
Noahs Second Country wrote:The Olympics is about using bank wisely - there are plenty of JV asks on common ripple cards, I doubt you'll see anyone buying above .02 or .03.

Well this didn't exactly age well

https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/ ... tion=nsco3

I'd also appreciate if a certain someone would stop calling us cheaters on the forums, discord, and RMB, thanks. And it's especially rude to criticize the games in a nonconstructive manner considering they are all run and funded by 9003 for the community.

well we can,t really say you have played with the rest of the player on equal footing. some players do not have 100 cte value cards, they can put on auction from their main, solely to get a chance to pull with a puppet. and not many players abuse the TACLS like you do. i could have tried to make snoop or MC pull event, but I always felt this would be unfair to those who do not have theses cards, and therefor, are unable to create one,

all wilds things won his category, I got nothing to say, he pull and sold 5 legend, congrats, i pulled only 1. but i directly gave up after Noah's pull event, I know when i cannot win no matter what I do .

by **Riemstagrad** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:54 pm

I gave up when Gio was overbidding on the hundreds of commons with rippled flags i had just spent hours to dig up and bid on.

That came after i halted my game when Noah and Gio made loads of bank with a private pull-event, hold by Noah's own main nation.

Congrats on All Wild Things for your win in the UR category!

by **Sunhizria** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 2:16 pm

Riemstagrad wrote:I gave up when Gio was overbidding on the hundreds of commons with rippled flags i had just spent hours to dig up and bid on.

That came after i halted my game when Noah and Gio made loads of bank with a private pull-event, hold by Noah's own main nation.

Congrats on All Wild Things for your win in the UR category!

don't say this. Noah does not want to hear people talk about what he did.
he want you to believe it your own fault you did not do any pull events. for your own nations.

by **9003** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:41 pm

by **The Cosmic Mainframe** » Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:48 am

I'm grateful to Noah for redistributing his prizes, and glad I managed to get second.

Awaiting next time, I've already found a likely partner and come up with the name for the puppet series.

by **All Wild Things** » Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:56 am

9003 wrote:The prizes have been gifted out!
Well done!

Thank you.

Riemstagrad wrote:Congrats on All Wild Things for your win in the UR category!

Thank you. You'd been playing a great game. I'm sorry you felt the need to stop.

The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:Pending the final results, I believe I got second in Epic and UR, and I'm glad for that.

Well done! That was good going, especially with your late start.

I'd like to give a shout out to Awesomeland12345, who kindly stopped sniping my JV trades when asked

And a huge shout out to Racoda, whose dispatch was very informative. I looked at that a lot!

Although that card pull strategy wasn't against the rules, I think it could be good to adjust the rules for next time. The principles of the rules are good. The no gifting in, and no trading with your non-olympic nations, means you aren't using your outside nations to influence the event. The card-pull strategy doesn't feel like it fits with those principles.

I had worried about Noah & Gio starting to collect URs too. On the last day, they were ahead on Epics, and had overtaken on Commons. They still had enough bank to out-do me on URs. If they had started that, my plan was to use non-olympic puppets to out-bid them (if I couldn't get the cards myself, I could at least prevent someone else getting them). But again, that feels like a strategy that doesn't fit with Olympian principles.

Maybe having an over-arching principle of "no undue outside influence", plus a handful of rules would be a good approach. The rules can never catch everything, but the principle would help prevent strategies like the one I schemed up.

Thanks for organising this. It was fun, though exhausting! I don't think I've ever expended so much energy while sitting still in front of a screen.

by **Awesomeland012345** » Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:03 am

All Wild Things wrote:I'd like to give a shout out to Awesomeland12345, who kindly stopped sniping my JV trades when asked

lol thanks for the shoutout.

by **Noahs Second Country** » Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:10 pm

All Wild Things wrote:
Maybe having an over-arching principle of "no undue outside influence", plus a handful of rules would be a good approach. The rules can never catch everything, but the principle would help prevent strategies like the one I schemed up.

I concur with this sentiment. I'm curious to see how people feel about running pull events from Olympic puppets - a high risk, high reward maneuver, though definitely doable.

Additionally, this was the second Olympics in a row where a high value legendary was pulled early on, plunging a lucky participant into a significant lead (which was no easy feat to overcome)

If the Olympics are to be even somewhat skill/effort based then I think there should be a cap on selling any cards with a bid above "x". X being as high as 10 or as low as 5.

The way I see it, the best way to create a fair playing field to reward skill in cards by removing a lot of the luck elements and forcing contestants onto even ground, where separation is created through good trading rather than a lucky pull, whether that is flipping cards or sniping the market.

Nicely done to All Wild Things, and also to Riemstagrad, both of whom employed some good strategies throughout the games.

5th Olympic games! Now with duos and a way to triple prizes!

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